PO34B:
Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change III Posters


Session ID#: 11450

Session Description:
This session highlights new research investigating observed and modeled ocean variability and change, focusing on ocean salinity as an important driver of ocean circulation and upper­ocean mixing and a key indicator of the global water cycle. Recent observations, historical measurements, and model simulations have revealed oceanic variability and change on short (daily to seasonal) and longer (interannual to climate, >30­year) timescales. The SMOS and Aquarius/SAC­-D satellite missions present an unprecedented opportunity to monitor surface salinity and elucidate the ocean processes driving salinity variations on numerous timescales. Satellites complement in situ observations and process­ oriented field experiments, allowing researchers to develop a detailed understanding of the causes and consequences of salinity variability. Contributions are invited on all aspects of ocean salinity variations from the perspective of in situ and satellite observations, numerical models, and data assimilation. The session will focus on the following themes: new oceanographic insights based on SMOS and Aquarius satellite data; new process-­based insights obtained from field studies; the role of salinity in thermohaline circulation, upper ­ocean stratification, and ocean dynamics; links between salinity variability and global and regional climate variability modes and the fingerprint of long­ term change; and the assimilation of salinity observations into ocean models.
Primary Chair:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Chairs:  Nicolas Reul, IFREMER, Plouzané, France, Hailong Liu, University of Miami/CIMAS, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States and Kyla Drushka, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Moderators:  Hailong Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China and Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Hailong Liu, University of Miami/CIMAS, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4594 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • TE - Tropical and Equatorial Environments

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
PO34B-3047
North Atlantic Sea Surface Salinity as a Predictor of Sahel Rainfall (Invited) (88040)
Laifang Li1, Raymond W Schmitt2, Caroline Ummenhofer3 and Kristopher B Karnauskas1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
PO34B-3048
SMOS Sea Surface Salinity in the North Atlantic Ocean: Signal of Douro and Gironde River Plumes. (91164)
Aida Alvera-Azcarate, Gaelle Parard, Alexander Barth and Jean-Marie Beckers, Université de Liège, AGO-GHER, Liège, Belgium
 
PO34B-3049
Processes analysis from EOF analysis of SMOS salinity data in the North Atlantic Ocean (89425)
Gaelle Parard, Aida Alvera-Azcarate, Alexander Barth and Jean-Marie Beckers, Université de Liège, AGO-GHER, Liège, Belgium
 
PO34B-3050
Variability of Salinity in the North Atlantic Using High Resolution Data Set that Combines Argo and Satellite Altimetry Data (87706)
Ilaria Stendardo, University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany, Monika Rhein, MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Birgit A Klein, BSH Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg, Germany, Achim Roessler, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany and Rainer Hollmann, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany
 
PO34B-3053
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Sea Surface Salinity in Bay of Bengal (91141)
Akhil Valiya Parambil, National Institute of Oceanography, Panaji-Goa, India
 
PO34B-3054
Monsoon and Salinity Variation in Bay of Bengal (89084)
W. Timothy Liu and Xiaosu Xie, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
PO34B-3055
The role of sea surface salinity over the Indian Ocean in the South Asian Summer Monsoon (93879)
Xu Yuan, University of Twente, ITC, Enschede, Netherlands, Mhd.Suhyb Salama, University of Twente, Faculty of GEO-information science and earth observation, Enschede, Netherlands and Zhongbo Su, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
 
PO34B-3056
INFLUENCE OF GANGES-BRAHMAPUTRA DISCHARGE ON THE VARIABILITY OF SALINITY OBSERVED ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIA. (90966)
Akurathi Venkata Sai Chaitanya, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, India and Len Gaign, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
PO34B-3057
Detecting the influence of ocean process on the moisture supply for India summer monsoon from Satellite Sea Surface Salinity (92743)
Wenqing Tang1, Simon H Yueh2, W. Timothy Liu1, Alexander Fore1 and Akiko Hayashi2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
PO34B-3058
A sea surface salinity dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean (90803)
Yuhong Zhang1, Yan DU1 and Tangdong Qu2, (1)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
PO34B-3059
Variability of Surface Salinity within the Southeast Asian Seas (88217)
Leah E.M. Trafford, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Arnold L Gordon, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Tong Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Claudia Fabiana Giulivi, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
PO34B-3060
Characteristics of the South Pacific subtropical surface salinity maximum (91482)
Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Arnold L Gordon, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Claudia Fabiana Giulivi, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
PO34B-3062
Global Variability and Changes in Ocean Total Alkalinity from Aquarius Satellite (Invited) (88986)
Rana A Fine, Debra A Willey and Frank J Millero Jr, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
 
PO34B-3063
Interannual and Decadal-Scale Salinity variations in Oceanic Subtropical Gyres (86900)
Bryce Andrew Melzer and Subrahmanyam Bulusu, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
 
PO34B-3064
The Structure and Interannual Variability of the Global Subtropical Underwater from 1950 to 2014 in the EN4 Data Product (92057)
Xujing Jia Davis and J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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